Rosalind Dais is a mixed media painter, freelance lecturer, award winning blogger and Core Gallery Manager. She will discuss all of these roles: her paintings and career through from textiles to fine art, blogging and becoming nominated to AIR to represent artists across the UK.

3-4pm

Talking Photography

Arnold Borgerth, Photographer

www.arnoldborgerth.com

Come along and follow a step by step guide through the development of my career as an artist, academic and commercial photographer. Experience photography as a language, and hear about my take on how to move from taking pictures into making them

4-5pm

Enver Gursev

www.emporiumofwonder.co.uk
"Celebrated Artist Enver Gursev of 'Core Gallery' fame would be delighted if you joined him for an afternoon of discussion. He will be talking about Art as a lifestyle, concept development, the delicate skill of 'seeing' and how to mix a damned fine cocktail."

Time

Sunday 5th December

2pm

"What the hell am I doing here?!"

Neil Kelly, Mixed Media Artist www.neilkellyart.com

Neil will be talking about how his life experiences have shaped and informed his practice showing examples of the above. As a mixed media artist Neil works with just about anything he can get his hands on ….

3pm

“ Process and Progress ”

Elizabeth Murton, Artist

www.elizabethmurton.co.uk

Elizabeth Murton practice explores a curiosity for woven forms, mark making and using unusual materials (such as 1400 tin cans!) to explore ideas of chaos, movement and order. Elizabeth will talk about her work in the current show Relay, her artist selection and commissions for the Crafts Council Deptford X 2010.

Cor Blimey Artists slip on their curating shoes as they each select one guest artist to partner with for Relay. The ensuing dialogue between work bounces within Relay as each 'pair' of artists exhibit side by side. From these collaborations, unexpected associations venture out and connect across the whole of the show. The exhibition shall explore a range of themes and trends that proliferate in contemporary art today. This range will cover the distance of subtle similarities and narratives passing between works to contrasts in themes and aesthetics. All finding expression and relevance through the vitality of a shared connection in thought.

Relay will present a variety of artworks; painting, drawing, photography, performance, printmaking, installation and ceramics by established and emerging artists from the UK and around the world.

Rosalind Davis, painter and Core Gallery Manager, says this about Relay,
"The idea for the exhibition came through a desire to allow our studio artist members to become their own mini curators and collaborators and for the exhibition to be a celebration of the achievements we have made at Core Gallery this year since opening in April 2010. The artists and artworks that have been selected are diverse and thought provoking. It is going to be a thrilling exhibition"

Davis invites mentor and fellow painter Graham Crowley, one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. Both painters project the historical, social and political backgrounds which infuse their painted environments with the identities of those who inhabit these physical environments but are absent from the painted scene. We're left with a distilled extraction of human psychology through environment.

Other examples of topics examined in Relay are an exploration of coding by Cor Blimey Artist Elizabeth Murton and her guest, artist Jenny Wiener who shapes her work from a desire "to understand the numerical systems that we create to organize our lives". Murton relates to these numerical systems through material and process. She is interested in "the linear visuals that are formed as materials are manipulated under pressure in a process such as weaving."

While Cor Blimey member Neil Kelly and his guest Vanessa Smith both explore flatness of line and colour in strange domestic scenes or banal landscapes. The flatness in their work reveals the tension and mystery in what can be termed ‘ordinary'.

New Core Gallery associate member, Jane Boyer extends an invitation to Annabel Tilley. Their collaboration for Relay entitled Extreme Narrative explores interrupted identity. Their contrasting approaches: idea/fact, abstraction/reality, gestural/graphic combine to create the friction of a spinning coin with elements from both sides visible at once. Boyer says, "through pairing my work with Annabel's, I've actually found a meaning to one of my works which I was struggling to find on my own. This show has been really stimulating."

Curated by Nick Kaplony

We also have a wonderful Core Gallery Interview with Nick Kaplony here

Core Gallery is delighted to present Psychometry, an exhibition of works by 12 contemporary artists that channel and manifest the intangible and invisible through their work. The exhibition takes its title from a practice employed by psychics and mediums, whereby past events and personal histories are divined through physical contact with an object.